Roamler: Earn As You Explore

This new, Amsterdam-based organisation from Martijn Nijhuis and Wiggert de Haan enables users of the Roamler iPhone app to earn money by completing assignments given to them based on their location. Companies can outsource tasks that usually relate to marketing and promotion, and can range from checking a product’s placement within a store to the individual publicising the product in different ways. After verification, you’re quid’s in. Currently only available in the Netherlands, they’re looking to increase their company database to incorporate international trade.

Making money from your iPhone isn’t new, OnePoll in the UK promised users an influx of paid surveys to complete for market research, and when they reach a certain amount of money in their account they could withdraw it. The problem? The surveys offered pennies, and were few and far between due to the massive amounts of people also trying it out, so no-one withdrew the promised riches. My hope is that Roamler expands to avoid these problems, and to provide a viable source of pocket-money. Also, fans of The Apprentice UK, does this not seem like a more developed version of runner up Helen Milligan‘s business idea?

During two nights in late June, pop-up restaurant Eenmaal served solo dinners in Bos en Lommer, Amsterdam. Marina van Goor, social designer and the initiator, chose the restaurant as a public and social place to break the taboo of being alone. Doen Foundation and branding agency Vandejong helped her to make the experiment happen.

The National Gallery of Denmark launched an interesting project involving art and music some months ago, that breaks the intangible screen that usually divides us from the modern art world. The institute asked several Danish musicians to compose a track based on their interpretation of some of the major works released by Danish and Nordic artists between 1750…

Bicycle culture is adopted as one of the solutions to increasing traffic congestion problems in many world cities. But that’s not the only thing — creative class guru Richard Florida claims that bicycle-friendly metros “are richer, better-educated, and more fit than non-biking places”. But how to stimulate bicycle culture in cities? PleaseCycle, a London-based start-up,…

The Sunlight Foundation released a smartphone (iOS/Android) app that enables users to retrieve information and data about the surrounding neighborhood. The Sitegeist app, as it is called, gets its information from various open sources such as Yelp reviews, Foursquare check-ins, US Census Bureau data and weather information. All this information is being visualized into attractive graphs. With these graphs, users can find out things like average age, climate or median income in a certain area.